10A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL November 2, 2016
COMMUNITY BRIEFS
J OYCE
Continued from page 7A
Faith becomes a part of who
you are
Something I’ve learned over
the years is that you cannot
change yourself. It’s spending
time with God that transforms
you.
One of the things the apostle
Paul prayed for the Ephesian
church was that the Holy Spirit
would reveal Himself in their
inner being and personality—
that they would see who God
had created them to be through
Christ (Ephesians 3:16-17
AMPC).
God wants us to be fi rmly
rooted in the love of Christ so
we can take authority over our
enemy. And He wants us to be
so stirred up in His love that
we can’t help but share it with
others. I believe if every Chris-
tian were doing this today, it
wouldn’t take a lot of time for
the entire world to hear and be-
lieve the good news of the Gos-
pel.
Faith leaves a footprint for
others to follow
Ultimately, it’s not the things
we do but our faith that pleases
God. He wants us to have faith
for incredible things. And when
we look to the heroes of faith in
Hebrews 11, we see how God
was able to work in their lives
because they believed. Hebrews
11:13 (AMPC) says that they
were “controlled and sustained
by their faith.” And their faith
still inspires us today.
Noah prepared an ark to save
his family. It took many years to
build it, and he was made fun of
every single day because where
he lived, there was no rain. The
Bible says that by faith, Noah
“became heir of the righteous-
ness that is in keeping with
faith” (Hebrews 11:7 NIV).
By faith, Abraham prepared
to sacrifi ce his son Isaac, with
the hope that God might raise
him from the dead (vv. 17-19).
Rahab was a prostitute but she
chose to believe that God could
use her in a mighty way. And
because of her faith, she and her
family were saved (v. 31).
What will be your great story
of faith?
First John 5:4 (AMPC) says,
“For whatever is born of God is
victorious over the world; and
this is the victory that conquers
the world, even our faith.”
Decide today that, with God,
the impossible is possible.
Amazing things can happen
when you choose to believe. So
be bold in asking God to reveal
what His promises mean for
you, and never stop believing
for them to be fulfi lled.
sopping wet.
Don’t worry if leaves start to
fall off; it’s natural. But clean
them out of the tray to keep
them from rotting and causing
disease.
In late March or early April,
tug on a couple of the cuttings.
If they don’t budge, they’ve
rooted. If so, transplant them
into 4- or 6-inch pot, depending
on the size of cutting. If more
roots have grown than will fi t in
the pot, don’t be afraid to trim
them.
S TEMS
Continued from page 8A
a cutting with at least a couple
of nodes (where the leaves and
buds attach to the stem). With
deciduous cuttings, make sure
to keep track of the top and bot-
tom of the cutting: buds on the
shoot always point to the tip. If
you can’t tell which side is up,
cut the tip at an angle and the
bottom straight.
Bundle them up and take them
to your workstation. Remove
bottom foliage from the cutting,
leaving two leaves or leaf buds
at the top. If they have berries
or fruit, remove those, too. Be
careful not to tear the bark. If the
plant is evergreen and has large
leaves like a rhododendron, cut
off half of each leaf.
Snip off a bit from the bottom
of the stem to refresh the cut.
Dip the bottom end of the stem
in rooting hormone and stick in
the the tray ½ to 1 inch apart.
Press “soil” around the cutting.
Apply water so that the mix-
ture is thoroughly moist but not
Place in a sheltered spot
where the cuttings get the most
shelter you can provide.
If it doesn’t rain or the cut-
tings are under an eave, keep
them watered.
When the forecast predicts
freezing weather, bring the trays
inside. Put them out as soon
as the temperature comes back
above 32 degrees.
O FFBEAT
Continued from page 4A
night, Bowker fi red, sending
a bullet whistling past Hecker’s
ear and off into the night. Heck-
er, luckily, had borrowed a .45
automatic from his former em-
ployer, so he whipped that out
now and returned fi re. One shot,
to the head. And then there was
blood everywhere.
Hecker had brought a hop
sack to put the cases of liquor
in. Now he stuffed the body
into it and laid it somewhere
out of sight, probably on the
fl oorboards of the car. He was,
of course, freaking out; he
couldn’t go back to Portland,
possibly ever; Bowker’s brother
would be gunning for him now.
So he drove south, making for
his hometown of Albany.
“I needed gasoline,” he told
the jury. “I thought I could get it
some place where they wouldn’t
know me. I saw a fi lling station
at what they call Horseshoe Park
(St. Paul). I drove in and got
the gas and tried to act natural
so they wouldn’t suspicion me.
The man didn’t say anything …
he just looked hard at me.”
He then drove, in confusion
and dismay and panic, around
Albany until he came upon the
old bridge over the Calapooia,
where he stopped and got the
hop sack — still dripping blood
— and heaved it over the rail.
Then he cleaned himself up
as best he could in the fi eld,
checked into the hotel to clean
himself up more thoroughly, and
drove back to Portland. Some-
where along the way he stopped
to clean up the car some, too.
It was a pretty good story. But
there were several reasons why
it was hard to buy. First, as the
prosecutor was not slow to point
out, the only witness to Frank
Bowker’s boorish behavior and
plans to rob “Bob” was the man
who had killed him. Also, Heck-
er had gone through Bowker’s
pockets after killing him. Why
would he do that, unless intend-
ing to rob him of the liquor-buy-
ing money?
But most damningly, there
was no evidence that more than
one shot had been fi red. Wit-
nesses near the bridge testifi ed
to only having heard one. So,
what about that .38 shot, with
which Bowker allegedly tried to
kill Hecker, making it self-de-
fense? With his eyes full of the
muzzle fl ash of that .38 going
off in his face, how likely was
it that Hecker would be able to
see (and shoot) Bowker’s head?
And how did Hecker account
for the shot having entered the
back of Bowker’s head rather
than the front?
On the other hand, had Heck-
er set out to murder Bowker, he
would hardly have used a bor-
rowed car and gun, or driven
half the night with a body in
the car to within blocks of his
parents’ house only to stay in a
hotel — would he?
Maybe not. But when sent
into its chambers to ponder
these things on July 1, the jury
took only an hour or so to come
to a decision: Guilty of fi rst-de-
gree murder.
Four days later, he was sen-
tenced to be hanged. It never
happened, though. A combina-
tion of good timing, excellent
counsel, a phenomenally lucky
break and the intervention of a
naïve newly-elected governor
resulted in Hecker’s sentence
being commuted; in fact, 15
years after his death sentence
was handed down, he was a free
man.
The full story of the Bowker
murder can be found in Cory
Frye’s book, Murder in Linn
County, Oregon. It’s presented
there as a sort of side dish to the
main course, which is the Plain-
view killings — a tragic episode
in the tiny Linn County ham-
let of Plainview that happened
two months later, in which the
county sheriff and a local pastor
Chamber Director Scouting for Food
happens Saturday
to address 912
Travis Palmer, Executive
Director of the Cottage Grove
Chamber of Commerce, will
be the guest speaker at the next
meeting of the Cottage Grove
912 Project on Monday, Nov. 7
at 6:30 p.m. at Stacy's Covered
Bridge Restaurant, 401 E Main.
Got waffl es?
The Masonic Center is host-
ing its waffl e supper for the
community on Friday, Nov.
4 from 4-7 p.m. Adults are
$6.50; Children 13 and under
are $4.50. The Center is
located at 33322 Row River
Road.
Local Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts,
and Girl Scouts will be knock-
ing on doors in Cottage Grove
neighborhoods this Saturday
from 9:30 a.m.-noon collecting
canned food and other non-
perishable goods to donate to
Community Sharing. Those
who would like to donate and
will not be home can place
their donations in a bag on their
doorstep with a label that says
"Scouting for Food." Those
interested in more information
can contact Christie Johnson at
541-214-5931.
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on what you might call a “law-
enforcement ride-along” were
gunned down by a bootlegging
farmer whom they had come to
arrest.
(Sources: Frye, Cory. Murder
in Linn County, Oregon: The
True Story of the Legendary
Plainview Killings. Charleston,
S.C.: The History Press, 2016;
Portland Morning Oregonian
archives, 4-19-1922 to 4-25-
1922)
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